C. J. Cherryh bibliography

Last updated

C. J. Cherryh at Norcon 12, Oslo, Norway, August 1994. C. J. Cherryh 1994 (recrop).jpg
C. J. Cherryh at Norcon 12, Oslo, Norway, August 1994.

American writer C. J. Cherryh 's career began with publication of her first books in 1976, Gate of Ivrel and Brothers of Earth . She has been a prolific science fiction and fantasy author since then, publishing over 80 novels, short-story compilations, with continuing production as her blog attests. [1] Cherryh has received the Hugo and Locus Awards for some of her novels.

Contents

Her novels are divided into various spheres, focusing mostly around the Alliance–Union universe, the Foreigner series and her fantasy novels.

The Alliance–Union universe

The Alliance–Union universe is a science fiction future history series, in which the development of political entities and cultures occurs over a long time period. Major characters in one work may be referenced or appear briefly in another.

The Hinder Stars

The novels take place before the beginning of the Company Wars

The Company Wars

According to the author, the novels in this universe, except Heavy Time and Hellburner (which were subsequently re-published in one volume as Devil to the Belt ), can be read in any order. [3] Those two books are chronologically the earliest in the series.

The Chanur novels

Unionside

The Age of Exploration

These novels share a common theme, but are unrelated to each other and can be read in any order.

The Mri Wars

These novels take place about 400 years after the Company wars

The Era of Rapprochement

The Hanan Rebellion

Merovingen Nights

The Merovin stories take place about 1000 years after the Company Wars

The Morgaine Cycle

The Foreigner series

Other science fiction

Finisterre universe

Gene Wars

Miscellaneous

Fantasy works

The Fortress series

Ealdwood

The Russian stories

Heroes in Hell

Miscellaneous fantasy

Collections

Omnibuses

Short fiction

Anthologies

Other works

As editor

The Merovingen Nights shared-world anthologies are set on the world of Merovin in Cherryh's Alliance–Union universe. They are collections of interrelated short stories written by Cherryh and others. Cherryh's novel Angel with the Sword precedes book #1 in this series.

As translator

From French to English:

Other credits

Cherryh did not write the three novels in the Sword of Knowledge series, but received co-author's credit because she penned a foreword to each. The publisher removed Cherryh's introductions from most or all editions of these works.

Scholarship

Works about C. J. Cherryh written by others.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">C. J. Cherryh</span> American speculative fiction author (born 1942)

Carolyn Janice Cherry, better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 80 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award–winning novels Downbelow Station (1981) and Cyteen (1988), both set in her Alliance–Union universe, and her Foreigner series. She is known for worldbuilding, depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sheri S. Tepper</span> American science fiction, horror and mystery novelist (1929–2016)

Sheri Stewart Tepper was an American writer of science fiction, horror and mystery novels. She is primarily known for her feminist science fiction, which explored themes of sociology, gender and equality, as well as theology and ecology. Often referred to as an eco-feminist of science fiction literature, Tepper personally preferred the label eco-humanist. Though the majority of her works operate in a world of fantastical imagery and metaphor, at the heart of her writing is real-world injustice and pain. She employed several pen names during her lifetime, including A. J. Orde, E. E. Horlak, and B. J. Oliphant.

<i>The Faded Sun Trilogy</i> Science fiction novel series by C. J. Cherryh

The Faded Sun trilogy is a series of science fiction novels by American writer C.J. Cherryh and set in her Alliance–Union universe. The series comprises the three novels The Faded Sun: Kesrith (1978), The Faded Sun: Shon'jir (1978), and The Faded Sun: Kutath (1979), published by DAW Books. They were republished as an omnibus edition in the UK in 1987 and in the U.S. in 2000.

Jane Suzanne Fancher is a science fiction and fantasy author and artist.

<i>The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh</i> 2004 collection of short fiction by C. J. Cherryh

The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh is a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories, novelettes and novella written by American author C. J. Cherryh between 1977 and 2004. It was first published by DAW Books in 2004. This collection includes the contents of two previous Cherryh collections, Sunfall (1981) and Visible Light (1986), all of the stories from Glass and Amber (1987), stories originally published in other collections and magazines, and one story written specifically for this collection ("MasKs"). Cherryh's 1978 Hugo Award winning story, "Cassandra" is also included.

The Alliance–Union universe is a fictional universe created by American writer C. J. Cherryh. It is the setting for a future history series extending from the 21st century into the far future.

<i>Merovingen Nights</i> Shared universe science fiction edited by C. J. Cherryh

Merovingen Nights is a series of shared universe science fiction books set in writer C. J. Cherryh's Alliance–Union universe. There are eight books in the series: a novel by Cherryh, Angel with the Sword, and seven short fiction anthologies which Cherryh edited. The books were published by DAW Books between 1985 and 1991.

<i>Angel with the Sword</i> 1985 novel by C. J. Cherryh

Angel with the Sword is a science fiction novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh, published in 1985 by DAW Books. It is set in Cherryh's Alliance–Union universe, and is the first book in the shared universe Merovingen Nights.

<i>The Cherryh Odyssey</i> 2004 collection of essays about C. J. Cherryh, edited by Edward Carmien

The Cherryh Odyssey is a 2004 collection of essays by various academics, critics and authors about American Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author, C. J. Cherryh. It was edited by author and academic, Edward Carmien, and was published by Borgo Press, an imprint of Wildside Press as part of its Author Study series. Locus Magazine put the book on its "2004 Recommended Reading List", and Carmien received a nomination for the 2005 Locus Award for Best Non-fiction book for The Cherryh Odyssey.

<i>The Morgaine Stories</i> Science fantasy series of novels by C. J. Cherryh

The Morgaine Stories, also known as The Morgaine Cycle, are a series of fantasy novels by American writer C. J. Cherryh, published by DAW Books. They concern a time-traveling heroine, Morgaine, and her loyal companion Nhi Vanye i Chya.

<i>Fires of Azeroth</i> 1979 novel by C. J. Cherryh

Fires of Azeroth is a 1979 fantasy novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh. It is the third of four books composing The Morgaine Stories, chronicling the quest that drives an obsessed Morgaine and her warrior companion, Nhi Vanye i Chya, ever onward.

<i>Gate of Ivrel</i> 1976 novel by C. J. Cherryh

Gate of Ivrel is a 1976 novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh, her first published work. It is the first of four books composing the Morgaine Stories, chronicling the deeds of Morgaine, a woman consumed by a mission of the utmost importance, and her chance-met companion, Nhi Vanye i Chya.

<i>The Russian Stories</i> (C. J. Cherryh) Fantasy novel series by C. J. Cherryh

The Russian Stories, also known as the Russian Series, the Russian Trilogy and the Rusalka Trilogy, are a series of fantasy novels by science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh. The stories are set in medieval Russia along the Dnieper river, in a fictional alternate history of Kievan Rus', a predecessor state of modern-day Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The three books in the series are Rusalka (1989), Chernevog (1990), and Yvgenie (1991). Rusalka was nominated for a Locus Award in 1990.

The Merchanter novels are several loosely connected novels by science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh set in her Alliance-Union universe. These science fiction novels explore her merchanter subculture: the extended families that own and operate the ships that supply goods, transportation, news and trade to the various worlds and space stations in the human Earth, Alliance and Union space. The novels are related by a common setting and theme – a misfit who finds his or her proper home – rather than plot and character; none of the books is a direct sequel of another in the conventional sense.

<i>Ealdwood Stories</i> Fantasy novel series by C. J. Cherryh

The Ealdwood Stories, also known as the Arafel Stories, are a collection of fantasy works by American writer C. J. Cherryh. The books are works of high fantasy based in part on Celtic mythology. Arafel, a main character, is a Daoine Sidhe, the highest of the Sidhe faery-folk. She dwells in the magical small forest of Ealdwood, from which the tales take their name.

<i>Ealdwood</i> 1981 novella by C. J. Cherryh

"Ealdwood" is a fantasy novella by American writer C. J. Cherryh. One of Cherryh's Ealdwood Stories, it was first published in 1981 by Donald M. Grant in a limited edition of 1,050 copies. The edition was illustrated by the author's brother, David A. Cherry. The novella draws on Celtic mythology and is about Ealdwood, a forest at the edge of Faery, and Arafel, a Daoine Sidhe.

<i>The Dreamstone</i> (novel) 1983 novel by C. J. Cherryh

The Dreamstone is a 1983 fantasy novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh. It includes revisions of the author's 1979 short story "The Dreamstone" and her 1981 novella Ealdwood, plus additional material. The book is the first of two novels in Cherryh's Ealdwood Stories series, the second being The Tree of Swords and Jewels. The series draws on Celtic mythology and is about Ealdwood, a forest at the edge of Faery, and Arafel, a Daoine Sidhe.

<i>The Tree of Swords and Jewels</i> 1983 novel by C. J. Cherryh

The Tree of Swords and Jewels is a 1983 fantasy novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh. It is the second of two novels in Cherryh's Ealdwood Stories series, the first being The Dreamstone. The series draws on Celtic mythology and is about Ealdwood, a forest at the edge of Faery, and Arafel, a Daoine Sidhe.

<i>Brothers of Earth</i> 1976 novel by C. J. Cherryh

Brothers of Earth is a 1976 science fiction novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh. It was the second of Cherryh's novels to be published, appearing after Gate of Ivrel, although she had completed and submitted Brothers of Earth first. Donald A. Wollheim, the editor of DAW Books, decided that publishing Gate of Ivrel first would be more commercially desirable, so Brothers of Earth was delayed until the former was released.

This is a list of books by Mercedes Lackey, arranged by collection.

References

  1. Cherryh, C. J. "Progress Report". Cherryh.com. Retrieved February 9, 2009.
  2. "Prometheus Awards". Libertarian Futurist Society. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  3. "C.J. Cherryh's webpage" . Retrieved February 6, 2009.
  4. "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1982 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
  5. 1 2 "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1990 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
  6. "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1998 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
  7. "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1983 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
  8. "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1985 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
  9. 1 2 "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1989 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
  10. Cherryh, C. J. "Universes of C. J. Cherryh – Alliance-Union". Cherryh.com. Retrieved August 15, 2006.
  11. "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1984 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved April 29, 2009.
  12. "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1986 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
  13. "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1979 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
  14. "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1978 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
  15. "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1995 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
  16. 1 2 "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1996 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
  17. 1 2 "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 2002 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved March 25, 2009.
  18. "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 2017 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  19. "Bibliography: Cassandra". Internet Speculative Fiction Database . Retrieved August 8, 2014.
  20. "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1999 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved November 2, 2015.
  21. "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 2000 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved March 25, 2009.